What Can YOU Do With $25.97?

On November 17th, just one week away, you can purchase a Cities 97 Sampler. Volume 23 will be in Target stores across the Twin Cities beginning at 8 AM. (Tip: The Nicollet Mall Target location will open at 7 AM that day!) For $25.97, what do you get? You get a beautifully packaged copy of the exclusive Cities 97 Sampler, with tracks by Adele, David Gray, O.A.R. and more. But have you wondered what the community gets? Love. Hope. CRITICAL RESOURCES. Cities 97 and their production partners have raised millions of dollars for MN charities. Take a look at the list of charities supported by last year’s Sampler alone! Angel Foundation – LinkAnimal Humane Society – LinkApple Tree Dental – LinkBlair’s Tree of Hope – LinkBlue Star Mothers – LinkBrain Injury Association of MN – LinkBridging Inc. – LinkBryan McDonough Military Heroes Foundation – LinkChildren’s Safety Centers – LinkCommonBond Communities – LinkConKerr Cancer – A Case For Smiles – LinkEmergency Food Shelf Network – LinkEmma Norton Services – LinkFaith’s Lodge – LinkGreater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery – LinkIris Remembers – LinkJunior League of Minneapolis – Back Pack Buddies – LinkMetro Meals on Wheels – LinkMinnesota Zoo Foundation – Dreamnight at the Zoo – LinkMS Cup Benefit for MS Society of MN – LinkMuscular Dystrophy Association – Camp Courage – LinkOne Heartland – LinkOpen Arms of Minnesota – LinkPACER Center – LinkProject Homeless Connect – LinkRock The Cause – LinkRonald McDonald House – MN – LinkSecond Harvest Heartland – LinkSenior Community Services – H.O.M.E Program – LinkSharing and Caring Hands – LinkSpare Key – LinkSpecial Olympics – MN – LinkStarlight Children’s Foundation –...

Cities 97 Sampler Countdown

With only two weeks to go until the Cities 97 Sampler Volume 23 drops, we’re staying buzzy and busy. Today we’ve had press on site shooting footage of the manufacturing process. Stay tuned to Channel 12, WCCO 4 News, Kare 11 or Twin Cities Live for your sneak peek behind the scenes! WCCO 4 News shooting footage of replication, the process of molding a CD from raw materials These discs have been replicated and printed and are readyto head to the assembly area for packaging One of the many smiling faces behind the Cities 97 Sampler FUN FACT: Each of the 33,000 Samplers is packaged by hand Mike Johnson, News Anchor for Channel 12 Connie Comeau, our COO, chatting with the press about our involvement with this amazing...

Cities 97 Sampler Party Announced!

The clock is ticking! Only 17 days to go until the Cities 97 Sampler Volume 23 drops.The ADS Group is buzzing with the production of this year’s sampler – we’ll be finishing up the packaging this week to get the discs distributed to Target stores in time for the much-anticipated November 17th release. Cities 97 has revealed the locale of its infamous Sampler Party. This year, we’ll be celebrating the release of Volume 23 at First Avenue on November 15th – with appearances by O.A.R. and Farewell Milwaukee – with other acts still to be announced! Stay tuned to Cities 97 for your chances to win a pair of invites to this exclusive party. Hope to see you...

Cities 97 Sampler, Volume 23

 Visit the Cities 97 site for more details! If you live in the Twin Cities – and not beneath a rock – you’ve heard of the Cities 97 Sampler. An annual compilation of tracks recorded at Studio C especially for the sampler, this disc is sold exclusively through Target stores as a charitable fundraiser. 100% of the proceeds go to Minnesota charities, and when this year’s disc sells out, the Sampler will have raised nearly 10 million dollars for our community over the years. The ADS Group has been a proud partner to Cities 97 on this amazing project for ten years and will be providing the disc replication services, gratis, again for Volume 23. With a track listing including Florence + The Machine, Sara Bareilles, David Gray and Adele, we are eagerly counting down until the release of Volume 23, in Target stores on Thursday, November 17th starting at 8 AM. We’ll see YOU at...

Media Manufacturers and Male Models

The ADS Group has it all! In addition to our prowess in the world of media manufacturing and services, our employees often demonstrate spectacular fashion sense. So fashion-foward, in fact, that PIM (Printing Industry Midwest) selected them as the male models for their September 2011 magazine cover. At this time we’d like to request that the paparazzi respect their need for privacy, as the guys are still adjusting to their newfound worldwide Midwestern fame. No autographs,...